pecan

10x5 Spalted Pecan Calabash. Rough turned and dried in kiln to <10% moisture content. This particular piece of wood earned the title of pecan-crete.

10 x 3 pecan spalted pecan bowl.

10 x 3 pecan spalted pecan bowl.

10" QS pecan platter. Wood is by product of cutting bowl blanks from logs. Once turned to finished size. Dried in kiln...<5% moisture content. Top View

10" QS pecan platter. Wood is by product of cutting bowl blanks from logs. Once turned to finished size. Dried in kiln...<5% moisture content. Bottom view

6 x 2 3/4 pecan bowl

6 x 2 3/4 pecan bowl

Mortar and pestle made from South American itauba and pecan. Itauba is a very hard dense durable wood with a high silica content. Dulls M42 steel chisels in minutes. Finish cuts on the itauba mortar were made with a Hunter Viceroy. Pestle is made from pecan. 7 1/4 x 3 1/2.

Mortar and pestle made from South American itauba and pecan. Itauba is a very hard dense durable wood with a high silica content. Dulls M42 steel chisels in minutes. Finish cuts on the itauba mortar were made with a Hunter Viceroy. Pestle is made from pecan. 7 1/4 x 3 1/2.

Camp Korey is a non-profit camp in Mt Vernon, WA just for kids with serious life-altering medical conditions. They have tons of adaptive programs that lets these kids have a camp experience just like any other kid, and best of all there is absolutely no cost to the family. So fire up that lathe...

Bottom view Finished with General Finishes Georgian Cherry, Ack's Paste and Odie's

Bottom / side view

Alternate top view

1st bowl out of the new kiln build.

7 1/2 x 3 1/4 twice turned bowl from urban harvested timber.

Left over blank from a commission is finally a platter. Finished with Watco Danish oil. 13 inch diameter

Turned from Pecan; pyrography applied Texas state logo; each bookend is 10.5” tall, 7” wide, and 3” deep; Texas logo is approximately 4.5” x 4.5”; finished with Watco Danish Oil, Natural color.

I live in the Houston area and have some pecan, oak, and hackberry stored under an open-sided lean-to off of my steel building. My son wanted a decent sized pecan limb for a small turning project of his. I had trimmed a pecan branch off of a tree that was hanging over our fence more than a year...

I acquired some pecan from a prominent potter here in NC - Ben Owen III. His grandfather planted the tree in the Seagrove community and I have been making a small collection of hollow forms from it. This piece was turned from an upper limb section so it still has the pith in it. The pieces...

May or may not be a problem. I'm turning a piece of pecan for a pen. I mixed up a batch of Trans Tint blue a while back, according to directions. I soaked a piece in the jar and it came out OK. The piece on the lathe has the TT brushed on. But the tint won't color the little pockets in the...